Phd Newsletter - Spring 2014

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The SOIS PhD Newsletter is published twice a year by the SOIS PhD student body. Contributions (articles, letters, photos, etc.) are welcomed. Please send updates to the PhD Program Director, Dr. Iris Xie (hiris@uwm.edu).

EDITORIAL BOARD Tyler Scott Smith, PhD Student, Chief Editor Joel DesArmo, PhD Student, Editor Shannon Barniskis, PhD Student, Editor Laura Ridenour, PhD Student, Editor Dr. Iris Xie, PhD Program Director, Editor

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Doctoral Program Committee 2013 - 2014

Presented by Dr. Donald Force and Dr. Nadine Kozak March 11, 2014 | 12:30 - 2:00pm Presented by Dr. Barbara Jones, ALA Dr. Soo Young Rieh, Excite/Univ. of Michigan Dr. Sandra Toro, IMLS April 17, 2014 | 12:00 - 1:30pm

2025 E Newport Ave NWQB 3rd Floor Milwaukee, WI 53211

Linda Barajas Dr. Terrance Newell (Chair, Fall 2013) Dr. Wilhelm Peekhaus (Chair, Spring 2014) Dr. Iris Xie (Director) Shannon Barniskis (Student)

INFORMATION our focus INTERNATIONAL scope UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE, SCHOOL OF INFORMATION our STUDIES INTERDISCIPLINARY our mindset

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PhD Information Studies

PhD Newsletter Vol. 03 | No. 02

In this issue:

1 2 3

Note from Program Director, Dr. Iris Xie

Building a Public Library Collaboratory, Student Milestones Building a Public Library Collaboratory, Selfies, Keywords, and Shout-outs

4-5

Selfies, Keywords, and Shout-outs, Why are We PhD Students, Recent Graduate

6-9

Selfies, Keywords, and Shout-outs, SOIS Doctoral Student’s Research Achievements

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Recent Scholarship: Chapter & Monograph Pubs, Articles, Conference Proceedings, Posters, Presentations

11 12

Recent Scholarship: Conference Presentations, Awards, Professional Service

Save The Date: Upcoming Events

March 2014

A Note from our Director...

Welcome back to Spring 2014! I would like to take this opportunity to thank Prof. Jin Zhang for his dedication and commitment to our PhD program during Fall 2013 when I was on sabbatical. I also would like to thank the previous DSO president, Nicholas Proferes, along with the executive committee members, Jihee Beak, Renee Kapusniak, and Adriana McCleer, for their contribution to the PhD program, and congratulate the new DSO President Shannon Barniskis and new DSO executive committee members Hyoungjoo Park, Adriana McCleer, and Ann Graf.

Here are some of the updates for the SOIS PhD program: Please join me to congratulate Dr. Soohyung Joo, Jihee Beak and Adriana McCleer!

Soohyung accepted a job offer as a tenure tracked Assistant Professor at School of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky. Jihee’s poster received Honorable Mention Award at ALISE/Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition. Adriana received Doctoral Students to ALISE Grant Award.

The new PhD curriculum will start Fall 2014. Among the new courses, Current Issues in Information Studies and Qualitative Research Methods in Information Studies will be offered in Fall 2014; Theoretical Foundations in Information Studies and Quantitative Research Methods in Information Studies will be offered in Spring 2015.

The SOIS PhD program will be reviewed in Fall 2014. We’ll collect related data of PhD program for the past 6 years including soliciting feedback from our graduates and existing students. I would like to thank Edward Benoit in assisting the data collection of the review report. This is the opportunity for us to review the strength of the program and think about how to enhance the program further.

The DPC is in the process of admitting new students for 2014-2015. Marketing and promotion is essential for the success of the SOIS PhD program. Recruiting materials including the SOIS PhD brochure and the flyer for PhD Research Assistantships are available in Front Office. Please help distribute them to prospective students.

In order to provide more incentive and motivation for doctoral students, I will work with the DPC to develop a comprehensive assessment mechanism for merit-based award distribution (e.g. Chancellor’s award).

School of Information Studies 2025 E Newport | NWQB 3rd Floor Milwaukee, WI 53211

Please send your comments and suggestions regarding our program to me (hiris@uwm.edu).

We are in touch and you are in touch.

PhD Building a Public Library Collaboratory

Selfies, Keywords, and Shout-outs

Information Studies

by Joel DesArmo

by Shannon Barniskis

SOIS faculty and doctoral students are bridging the gap between public librarians and scholars with an ongoing research and network-building project. In May 2013 at the Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries annual conference, Dr. Joyce M. Latham, Renee Bennett-Kapuzniak, Shannon Crawford Barniskis, Adriana McCleer, and Jennifer Thiele presented an interactive report on SOIS’ Public Library Leadership concentration and upcoming research on of the national Pew Center Reports on public libraries. Dean Wooseob Jeong spoke about SOIS’ outstanding work in supporting library education, and attendees discussed library issues while enjoying the reception.

Over the summer, the doctoral students teamed up with thirty librarians around Wisconsin in focus groups and individual interviews. These collaborations amassed information on how practitioners used and understood some of the most accessible national research available. The focus groups also aimed to build a network of people interested in better public library research, find out what questions or problems exist, find research partners, and develop awareness of SOIS’ public library research and educational options.

During the focus groups, a real need for building networks of inquiry became apparent. One librarian, discussing a question posed by the researchers, found a new way to reconcile how parents say they value libraries versus how they actually use them. She said, “Oh, that’s a good question. Thank you for that answer. I will take that. I like that. That’s makes sense to me.”

Her understanding illustrated how the collaboration between practitioners and researchers helped to clarify certain points for all parties. Participants answered questions for each other as well, and thanked the researchers for taking the time to ask meaningful questions about important issues for librarians.

Student Milestones: Soohyung Joo successfully defended his dissertation.

Edward Benoit, Jeremy Mauger, and Nicholas Proferes successfully defended their dissertation proposals.

Jeannette Glover, Adriana McCleer and Carol Sabbar successfully passed their preliminary exams.

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The team presented its findings at the Wisconsin Library Association in October 2013, at the ALISE conference in January 2014, and will be presenting further results at ALA Annual conference in Las Vegas in June 2014. Librarians and scholars alike have expressed enthusiasm for the project.

At ALISE, the president’s focus was on precisely this type of research collaboration. SOIS students were at the center of the conversation on how to build interdisciplinary research networks, expand the vision of LIS for scholars and constituents, and educate LIS students in praxis.

Researcher Jennifer Thiele, in her dual roles as practitioner and scholar, sums up the project, “There is a definite disconnect between the practitioner and academics, and this study set some groundwork for opening up lines of communication. It is more than just a body of research, but also builds connections for UWM students who will be looking for jobs in the future, or wanting to work with professionals on research. A library director may be more inclined to spend time with a student or institution they are familiar with than address a cold call from an agency that they have no relationship with.

This is why it is extremely important to not stop with just this research, but to continue to forge new connections with our practitioners who are so important to the future of the students and the school itself.”

For the next step, these researchers will build a web-based collaboratory linking librarians who have problems or who are willing to allow their libraries to host research, with scholars seeking research sites and issues. The collaboratory will address interdisciplinary connections between LIS and other fields. For example, a public library concerned with best practices in serving homeless patrons might offer their library as a research site, and a SOIS scholar and scholars in social work or public health might find each other through the collaboratory. In addition, the collaboratory will collocate public library state statutes, research data, and other tools for public library scholars. Eventually, Dr. Latham hopes to open this collaboratory to international audiences and support public librarianship around the world.

Wordcloud of SOIS PhD students’ names and keyword self-descriptions laid out at random. Think you know the students?

Try to guess which keyword is associated with which student.

The correct matchups can be found throughout this newsletter.

HINT: not all students have a keyword.

Selfies

, photos in which an individual takes a photograph of themselves, have made a huge impact in pop-culture recently. The term “selfie” was even named 2013 Word of the Year by the Oxford Dictionaries. In a nod to the meteoric rise of selfies, and to give readers a glimpse into the people behind the research, the doctoral students were asked to take a selfie and share a one-word keyword summary of themselves.

Famous among rappers and urban socialites, shout-outs are defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “A mention, acknowledgement, or greeting, esp. one made over the radio or during a live performance; a namecheck.” As far back as 1990 when the term first coined 1, shout-outs have been a way of expressing thanks for the love and support received from others. One of the themes of this article is connection. Connection to others is an important part of life as a PhD student, and can contribute significantly to enabling the incredible accomplishments that we do. Students were given an opportunity to share a brief shout-out to honor some of those connections that keep them going. bbar for being out-out to Carol Sa A special kick-off sh to share these d taking a moment the inspiration behin . acknowledgements

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PhD Building a Public Library Collaboratory

Selfies, Keywords, and Shout-outs

Information Studies

by Joel DesArmo

by Shannon Barniskis

SOIS faculty and doctoral students are bridging the gap between public librarians and scholars with an ongoing research and network-building project. In May 2013 at the Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries annual conference, Dr. Joyce M. Latham, Renee Bennett-Kapuzniak, Shannon Crawford Barniskis, Adriana McCleer, and Jennifer Thiele presented an interactive report on SOIS’ Public Library Leadership concentration and upcoming research on of the national Pew Center Reports on public libraries. Dean Wooseob Jeong spoke about SOIS’ outstanding work in supporting library education, and attendees discussed library issues while enjoying the reception.

Over the summer, the doctoral students teamed up with thirty librarians around Wisconsin in focus groups and individual interviews. These collaborations amassed information on how practitioners used and understood some of the most accessible national research available. The focus groups also aimed to build a network of people interested in better public library research, find out what questions or problems exist, find research partners, and develop awareness of SOIS’ public library research and educational options.

During the focus groups, a real need for building networks of inquiry became apparent. One librarian, discussing a question posed by the researchers, found a new way to reconcile how parents say they value libraries versus how they actually use them. She said, “Oh, that’s a good question. Thank you for that answer. I will take that. I like that. That’s makes sense to me.”

Her understanding illustrated how the collaboration between practitioners and researchers helped to clarify certain points for all parties. Participants answered questions for each other as well, and thanked the researchers for taking the time to ask meaningful questions about important issues for librarians.

Student Milestones: Soohyung Joo successfully defended his dissertation.

Edward Benoit, Jeremy Mauger, and Nicholas Proferes successfully defended their dissertation proposals.

Jeannette Glover, Adriana McCleer and Carol Sabbar successfully passed their preliminary exams.

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The team presented its findings at the Wisconsin Library Association in October 2013, at the ALISE conference in January 2014, and will be presenting further results at ALA Annual conference in Las Vegas in June 2014. Librarians and scholars alike have expressed enthusiasm for the project.

At ALISE, the president’s focus was on precisely this type of research collaboration. SOIS students were at the center of the conversation on how to build interdisciplinary research networks, expand the vision of LIS for scholars and constituents, and educate LIS students in praxis.

Researcher Jennifer Thiele, in her dual roles as practitioner and scholar, sums up the project, “There is a definite disconnect between the practitioner and academics, and this study set some groundwork for opening up lines of communication. It is more than just a body of research, but also builds connections for UWM students who will be looking for jobs in the future, or wanting to work with professionals on research. A library director may be more inclined to spend time with a student or institution they are familiar with than address a cold call from an agency that they have no relationship with.

This is why it is extremely important to not stop with just this research, but to continue to forge new connections with our practitioners who are so important to the future of the students and the school itself.”

For the next step, these researchers will build a web-based collaboratory linking librarians who have problems or who are willing to allow their libraries to host research, with scholars seeking research sites and issues. The collaboratory will address interdisciplinary connections between LIS and other fields. For example, a public library concerned with best practices in serving homeless patrons might offer their library as a research site, and a SOIS scholar and scholars in social work or public health might find each other through the collaboratory. In addition, the collaboratory will collocate public library state statutes, research data, and other tools for public library scholars. Eventually, Dr. Latham hopes to open this collaboratory to international audiences and support public librarianship around the world.

Wordcloud of SOIS PhD students’ names and keyword self-descriptions laid out at random. Think you know the students?

Try to guess which keyword is associated with which student.

The correct matchups can be found throughout this newsletter.

HINT: not all students have a keyword.

Selfies

, photos in which an individual takes a photograph of themselves, have made a huge impact in pop-culture recently. The term “selfie” was even named 2013 Word of the Year by the Oxford Dictionaries. In a nod to the meteoric rise of selfies, and to give readers a glimpse into the people behind the research, the doctoral students were asked to take a selfie and share a one-word keyword summary of themselves.

Famous among rappers and urban socialites, shout-outs are defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “A mention, acknowledgement, or greeting, esp. one made over the radio or during a live performance; a namecheck.” As far back as 1990 when the term first coined 1, shout-outs have been a way of expressing thanks for the love and support received from others. One of the themes of this article is connection. Connection to others is an important part of life as a PhD student, and can contribute significantly to enabling the incredible accomplishments that we do. Students were given an opportunity to share a brief shout-out to honor some of those connections that keep them going. bbar for being out-out to Carol Sa A special kick-off sh to share these d taking a moment the inspiration behin . acknowledgements

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Melodie Fox

Vulpine

PhD Why are we PhD Students?

enour d i R a r u a L

Information Studies

Knowledge

by Tyler Scott Smith

We have all been asked “why are you getting a PhD?” I know I have been. The furrowed brow and slight head turn of friends and family when they hear your decision to continue your education. Usually the follow up question is “what’s a PhD?” which somehow the answer “Doctor of Philosophy” never seems to help answer the question. The more we students think about this question of “why” when we are asked about our education and life decisions, we begin to reflect on our path taken to this point. So I ask you, why are you working towards getting a PhD?

Jihee Beak

Metadata

We all have our reasons, no one embarks on a journey like ours without having a good reason. Jeannette Glover, a current PhD student at the School of Information Studies, looked back at her original motivations as to why she decided to pursue her education further, “Before the possibility of my completing a PhD program even came into my world, I was working a job that I loved that challenged me in many ways, but there were always questions: from both myself and students that I encountered in the library.”

colleagues who Shout out to my ring the ALISE supported me du lly to Adriana for conference, especia fancy shoes!! ;P letting me wear her

It was Jeannette’s displeasure with the most common answer she received at her job when these questions were asked, “Because it’s always been done that way.” That answer was never satisfactory for Jeannette. She knew that with dedication, tenacity, the camaraderie of fellow students and the guidance of faculty she could achieve her goal of giving better answers than those she had received, Jeanette “vowed that if I ever got the opportunity, I would conduct research to find answers for these questions” and now she is.

Joel De s

The curiosity that drove Jeannette was also a major motivator for Ann Graf. Ann is also a PhD student at the School of Information Studies. Ann explained that “There

Armo Circle

I am currently teaching two BSIST classes as an adjunct lecturer at SOIS and am participating in a research project that develops help systems for blind people. In this project, I am working with Drs. Iris Xie, Rakesh Babu and Wooseb Jeong to understand blind users’ unique help-seeking situations and associated factors in searching digital libraries.

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How did your experience as a PhD student prepare you for your work?

In SOIS, I had a lot of opportunities for both research and teaching. A Project Assistantship provided me with the opportunity to work with SOIS faculty in my research area. By participating real research projects, I was able to learn how to plan and conduct research projects, as well as how to produce research papers.

Teaching opportunities included a teaching assistantship as well as independent teaching of several courses. I really enjoyed interacting with students, and was able to develop my own teaching methods for IT courses. Moreover, thanks to SOIS

Jeremy Mauger Inspiration!

“Before the possibility of my completing a PhD program even came into my world, I was working a job that I loved that challenged me in many ways, but there were always questions: from both myself and students that I encountered in the library. [ I ] vowed that if I ever got the opportunity, I would conduct research to find answers for these questions” Jeannette Glover, PhD Student My own reasons were personal. A goal I had always seemed to have was to complete a PhD and it was no secret to my family. When I earned my MLIS I was hired for a stable library job in the field I studied. I was content and when my grandmother asked about my progress toward my PhD I told her I was not going to pursue it anymore because of my new job. Later when she was in hospice care she had written letters to everyone she knew, only to be opened after she had passed away. When I opened mine it began with the line “To my dear future professor.” I knew then and realize now that the reason I am here is for my family; past, present and future.

We PhD students now share offices, see each other in class, collaborate on projects and have built lasting friendships, but we all still differ. We all have our own reasons to be continuing our education. It might be the curiosity of the infinite, the shattering of the chains of complacency, the gifts of knowledge we offer future researchers or a fifteen year promise to a grandmother. So ask yourself today “why are you here” and you will find there is no greater motivator than remembering that answer.

Recent Graduate: Dr. Soohyung Joo’s Interview What are you doing now?

parents for more Shout out to my uld possibly list, to reasons than I co g for taking me as Professor Jin Zhan ssor Simon Mu for his student, to Profe time teaching me, to spending so much help and friendship, Soohyung for his the world for being and to the people of the time. pretty cool most of

are so many interesting questions to explore concerning information.” She expanded on the idea of information by adding “everyone uses it everywhere, every day. They collect it, organize it, mush it around, change it and display it.” Ann looks to the process of scholarship as one of her reasons to continue her education in the PhD program. She identifies the legacy of research, the constant barriers that are broken by new research and the building that takes place from the new ideas. She notes that “I look forward to my own specific research and to hopefully benefiting society and future students who will carry on this type of work.”

support, I attended several conferences and shared my work in the field. I believe all these experiences during my PhD program will help my transition to my next career as a faculty member.

What are challenges you are encountering in making your transition from student to professional?

Although I hold a PhD degree now, I still feel like a student. Working and thinking independently is challenging. During the PhD program, I mostly worked as a research assistant for professors, rather than independently conducting my own projects. I now must learn to develop my own research plans and conduct independent research.

What advice would you offer current SOIS PhD students?

Shanno n Crawfo rd B

arniskis

non-PhD ael, who makes all To my husband Mich o would life easier, and wh program parts of my I’d let him. the PhD stuff too, if probably help with

by Laura Ridenour with research from my master’s program in the design of digital libraries.

My focus carried over into several other research projects, as well as my dissertation.

If you have your own research interests and goals, I think research will be much more fun and enjoyable.

I would advise current students to develop their own research agendas as early as possible. In my case, I decided to continue Spring 2014| 05

Melodie Fox

Vulpine

PhD Why are we PhD Students?

enour d i R a r u a L

Information Studies

Knowledge

by Tyler Scott Smith

We have all been asked “why are you getting a PhD?” I know I have been. The furrowed brow and slight head turn of friends and family when they hear your decision to continue your education. Usually the follow up question is “what’s a PhD?” which somehow the answer “Doctor of Philosophy” never seems to help answer the question. The more we students think about this question of “why” when we are asked about our education and life decisions, we begin to reflect on our path taken to this point. So I ask you, why are you working towards getting a PhD?

Jihee Beak

Metadata

We all have our reasons, no one embarks on a journey like ours without having a good reason. Jeannette Glover, a current PhD student at the School of Information Studies, looked back at her original motivations as to why she decided to pursue her education further, “Before the possibility of my completing a PhD program even came into my world, I was working a job that I loved that challenged me in many ways, but there were always questions: from both myself and students that I encountered in the library.”

colleagues who Shout out to my ring the ALISE supported me du lly to Adriana for conference, especia fancy shoes!! ;P letting me wear her

It was Jeannette’s displeasure with the most common answer she received at her job when these questions were asked, “Because it’s always been done that way.” That answer was never satisfactory for Jeannette. She knew that with dedication, tenacity, the camaraderie of fellow students and the guidance of faculty she could achieve her goal of giving better answers than those she had received, Jeanette “vowed that if I ever got the opportunity, I would conduct research to find answers for these questions” and now she is.

Joel De s

The curiosity that drove Jeannette was also a major motivator for Ann Graf. Ann is also a PhD student at the School of Information Studies. Ann explained that “There

Armo Circle

I am currently teaching two BSIST classes as an adjunct lecturer at SOIS and am participating in a research project that develops help systems for blind people. In this project, I am working with Drs. Iris Xie, Rakesh Babu and Wooseb Jeong to understand blind users’ unique help-seeking situations and associated factors in searching digital libraries.

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How did your experience as a PhD student prepare you for your work?

In SOIS, I had a lot of opportunities for both research and teaching. A Project Assistantship provided me with the opportunity to work with SOIS faculty in my research area. By participating real research projects, I was able to learn how to plan and conduct research projects, as well as how to produce research papers.

Teaching opportunities included a teaching assistantship as well as independent teaching of several courses. I really enjoyed interacting with students, and was able to develop my own teaching methods for IT courses. Moreover, thanks to SOIS

Jeremy Mauger Inspiration!

“Before the possibility of my completing a PhD program even came into my world, I was working a job that I loved that challenged me in many ways, but there were always questions: from both myself and students that I encountered in the library. [ I ] vowed that if I ever got the opportunity, I would conduct research to find answers for these questions” Jeannette Glover, PhD Student My own reasons were personal. A goal I had always seemed to have was to complete a PhD and it was no secret to my family. When I earned my MLIS I was hired for a stable library job in the field I studied. I was content and when my grandmother asked about my progress toward my PhD I told her I was not going to pursue it anymore because of my new job. Later when she was in hospice care she had written letters to everyone she knew, only to be opened after she had passed away. When I opened mine it began with the line “To my dear future professor.” I knew then and realize now that the reason I am here is for my family; past, present and future.

We PhD students now share offices, see each other in class, collaborate on projects and have built lasting friendships, but we all still differ. We all have our own reasons to be continuing our education. It might be the curiosity of the infinite, the shattering of the chains of complacency, the gifts of knowledge we offer future researchers or a fifteen year promise to a grandmother. So ask yourself today “why are you here” and you will find there is no greater motivator than remembering that answer.

Recent Graduate: Dr. Soohyung Joo’s Interview What are you doing now?

parents for more Shout out to my uld possibly list, to reasons than I co g for taking me as Professor Jin Zhan ssor Simon Mu for his student, to Profe time teaching me, to spending so much help and friendship, Soohyung for his the world for being and to the people of the time. pretty cool most of

are so many interesting questions to explore concerning information.” She expanded on the idea of information by adding “everyone uses it everywhere, every day. They collect it, organize it, mush it around, change it and display it.” Ann looks to the process of scholarship as one of her reasons to continue her education in the PhD program. She identifies the legacy of research, the constant barriers that are broken by new research and the building that takes place from the new ideas. She notes that “I look forward to my own specific research and to hopefully benefiting society and future students who will carry on this type of work.”

support, I attended several conferences and shared my work in the field. I believe all these experiences during my PhD program will help my transition to my next career as a faculty member.

What are challenges you are encountering in making your transition from student to professional?

Although I hold a PhD degree now, I still feel like a student. Working and thinking independently is challenging. During the PhD program, I mostly worked as a research assistant for professors, rather than independently conducting my own projects. I now must learn to develop my own research plans and conduct independent research.

What advice would you offer current SOIS PhD students?

Shanno n Crawfo rd B

arniskis

non-PhD ael, who makes all To my husband Mich o would life easier, and wh program parts of my I’d let him. the PhD stuff too, if probably help with

by Laura Ridenour with research from my master’s program in the design of digital libraries.

My focus carried over into several other research projects, as well as my dissertation.

If you have your own research interests and goals, I think research will be much more fun and enjoyable.

I would advise current students to develop their own research agendas as early as possible. In my case, I decided to continue Spring 2014| 05

Ann Graff

PhD Information Studies

SOIS Doctoral Student’s Research Achievements

epistemawho?

Misplaced

s together Joel :)

Thanks for pulling thi

Nodes in the network vary in size and color. The color of each node is associated with one of the three majors at SOIS: Information Policy, Information Organization, and Information Retrieval. A fourth color is used to denote other authors not affiliated with one of the three majors. There were also three SOIS doctoral students for whom time did not allow their major to be ascertained prior to publishing this newsletter, and were therefore associated with the “na” color.

SOIS students and alumni are identified in the network by using all capital letters in their name.

Students in the School of Information Studies (SOIS) doctoral program at UW-Milwaukee are always hard at work. On any given day in SOIS, you can find students reading, writing, or collecting and analyzing data from early hours of the morning until late at night. This section of the SOIS PhD Student Newsletter is devoted to showcasing that work, and this issue includes a look at SOIS doctoral student co-authorship relationships.

The co-authorship data consists of the most recent research output from SOIS PhD students, in addition to research output that has appeared in the previous five issues of the SOIS PhD Student Newsletter. The self-reported data spans from 2010 to the present and includes chapters & monographs, journal articles, conference proceedings, conference posters, conference presentations, and invited speakers. Gephi software was used to facilitate this process.

r

e Adriana McCle Prelims

The co-authorship network includes 90 authors and 220 co-authorship relationships.

The network layout used was the Force Atlas algorithm.

This algorithm attracts nodes with stronger relationships closer together while repulsing other nodes, until equilibrium is reached. The algorithm also incorporates a simulated gravity, which has the effect of drawing all the nodes to the center of the graph.

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GMT

by Joel DesArmo

A shout out to Lexie who, althoug h now completely blind and nea rly deaf, provides timely and insightfu l reviews of all my work.

Nick Proferes

Ed Benoit

The size of each node relates to the total number of research items output by the author. Larger nodes signify greater research output. An estimated amount of research items per author is given by the number next to each author name. This is only an estimate because at times there was an overlap in reporting among some categories in the raw data, resulting in an overestimate of the total number of research items output by some authors in the network graph. For example, a particular research item may have been reported once in the category of conference presentations and once in the category of conference proceedings.

On occasion, duplicate scholarly output was also reported in consecutive issues of the SOIS PhD Newsletter. Due to time limitations, data was collected as reported. Time did not allow for the records to be individually inspected for duplication, therefore the results presented are only an estimate of total research output per author.

Jennifer Thiel

Love I would like to give a shoutout to my kid s that help me take my self less seriously.

Tyler Scott Smith

Priorities

The lines connecting nodes represent co-authorship relationships. Thicker lines represent a greater number of collaborations between authors. Some lines look somewhat like a ribbon, going from a node and looping back to the exact same node. This indicates a self-loop, or in this case, research that was conducted individually. The thicker the “ribbon” appears to be, the greater the amount of solo research by that author. Each author in the network has worked with an average of 4.9 other authors during the timeframe of 2010-2014.

As many readers are likely quite fond of bacon, a version of the so-called “Bacon Number” for the SOIS doctoral student co-authorship network has been computed.

This is also known in pop-culture as the phenomenon of six degrees of separation in which any living human is only separated on average from any other human on the planet by six interpersonal relationships. The average “Bacon Number”, or more precisely the average path length, of this network is 3.4, quite a bit more connected that the global network. Although the SOIS doctoral co-authorship network is small, tiny in comparison to the globe, it still is not totally connected.

The maximum distance between any two authors in this network is eight people away, which suggests even in this small network, it may still be possible to retain some element of privacy.

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To my cats Bella an

me sane.

Continued...

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Ann Graff

PhD Information Studies

SOIS Doctoral Student’s Research Achievements

epistemawho?

Misplaced

s together Joel :)

Thanks for pulling thi

Nodes in the network vary in size and color. The color of each node is associated with one of the three majors at SOIS: Information Policy, Information Organization, and Information Retrieval. A fourth color is used to denote other authors not affiliated with one of the three majors. There were also three SOIS doctoral students for whom time did not allow their major to be ascertained prior to publishing this newsletter, and were therefore associated with the “na” color.

SOIS students and alumni are identified in the network by using all capital letters in their name.

Students in the School of Information Studies (SOIS) doctoral program at UW-Milwaukee are always hard at work. On any given day in SOIS, you can find students reading, writing, or collecting and analyzing data from early hours of the morning until late at night. This section of the SOIS PhD Student Newsletter is devoted to showcasing that work, and this issue includes a look at SOIS doctoral student co-authorship relationships.

The co-authorship data consists of the most recent research output from SOIS PhD students, in addition to research output that has appeared in the previous five issues of the SOIS PhD Student Newsletter. The self-reported data spans from 2010 to the present and includes chapters & monographs, journal articles, conference proceedings, conference posters, conference presentations, and invited speakers. Gephi software was used to facilitate this process.

r

e Adriana McCle Prelims

The co-authorship network includes 90 authors and 220 co-authorship relationships.

The network layout used was the Force Atlas algorithm.

This algorithm attracts nodes with stronger relationships closer together while repulsing other nodes, until equilibrium is reached. The algorithm also incorporates a simulated gravity, which has the effect of drawing all the nodes to the center of the graph.

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by Joel DesArmo

A shout out to Lexie who, althoug h now completely blind and nea rly deaf, provides timely and insightfu l reviews of all my work.

Nick Proferes

Ed Benoit

The size of each node relates to the total number of research items output by the author. Larger nodes signify greater research output. An estimated amount of research items per author is given by the number next to each author name. This is only an estimate because at times there was an overlap in reporting among some categories in the raw data, resulting in an overestimate of the total number of research items output by some authors in the network graph. For example, a particular research item may have been reported once in the category of conference presentations and once in the category of conference proceedings.

On occasion, duplicate scholarly output was also reported in consecutive issues of the SOIS PhD Newsletter. Due to time limitations, data was collected as reported. Time did not allow for the records to be individually inspected for duplication, therefore the results presented are only an estimate of total research output per author.

Jennifer Thiel

Love I would like to give a shoutout to my kid s that help me take my self less seriously.

Tyler Scott Smith

Priorities

The lines connecting nodes represent co-authorship relationships. Thicker lines represent a greater number of collaborations between authors. Some lines look somewhat like a ribbon, going from a node and looping back to the exact same node. This indicates a self-loop, or in this case, research that was conducted individually. The thicker the “ribbon” appears to be, the greater the amount of solo research by that author. Each author in the network has worked with an average of 4.9 other authors during the timeframe of 2010-2014.

As many readers are likely quite fond of bacon, a version of the so-called “Bacon Number” for the SOIS doctoral student co-authorship network has been computed.

This is also known in pop-culture as the phenomenon of six degrees of separation in which any living human is only separated on average from any other human on the planet by six interpersonal relationships. The average “Bacon Number”, or more precisely the average path length, of this network is 3.4, quite a bit more connected that the global network. Although the SOIS doctoral co-authorship network is small, tiny in comparison to the globe, it still is not totally connected.

The maximum distance between any two authors in this network is eight people away, which suggests even in this small network, it may still be possible to retain some element of privacy.

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PhD SOIS Doctoral Student’s Research Achievements...(continued) Information Studies

k Hyoungjoo Par Organization (suggested by Laura Ridenour)

Carol Sabbar Distraction

Library and Information Science is regarded as a diverse and interdisciplinary field. This diversity is reflected in the research patterns of those in this network, with some preferring to work alone, while others prefer to work in groups.

The network also reveals several isolated authors or author groups that are detached from the main network. Four out of the 90 total authors in the network are authoring islands, preferring to write in solo. There are also an additional four co-authorship duos or trios that have no attachment to the main network.

In total 14.4% of the total number of authors in the network are not connected to the giant component. (Giant component is an actual scientific term used in network analysis.)

In addition to research islands, there are also authors who have stepped out of the confines of their major. While several people in the network have worked with individuals from one of the other SOIS majors, four students have worked with people in both of the other SOIS majors. Renee Bennett-Kapusniak, Jennifer Thiele, Adriana McCleer, and Jeanette Glover have engaged in research with colleagues from across the spectrum at SOIS. With some preferring to work alone and some enjoying crossing majors, it can be seen that there is plenty of diversity in approaches to student research at SOIS.

A special shout-out “th ank you” to Melodie Fox and Jihee Beak for giving me inspiration and just knowing they were behind me.

Bennett-Kapusniak, changes teams under the lens of cluster analysis.

She is an Information Retrieval (IR) major, but the clustering algorithm associates Bennett-Kapusniak with the Information Policy (IP) major.

It appears there is an IP researcher hidden in IR clothing; hmmm, very interesting. Clustering also indicates a split within the Information Policy major into two IP sub-clusters. A cursory survey of research titles suggests that one of the two IP sub-groups is more focused on privacy and new media, while the other IP sub-group leans more toward library-related topics.

In terms of majors, there were ten authors working in Information Policy, eleven authors working in Information Organization, and sixteen authors working in Information Retrieval in this network.

These include both doctoral students and SOIS professors known to be predominately associated with one of the three major areas, but does not include post-doctoral fellows, UMW professors generally not affiliated with one of the three major areas, and other authors not affiliated with UWM. Although in this sample, authors working in Information Retrieval have a 25% greater research output than those working in Information Organization, an ANOVA test indicated there is no statistically significant difference in the research output between authors in Information Policy, Information Organization, and Information Retrieval.

SOIS students’ research has taken them all over the globe. Through scholarly travel, students can be opened to cultures and customs to which they might not otherwise be exposed, thereby fostering not only their academic growth but also their individual personal human growth as well. In the course of sharing their research, SOIS doctoral students have visited 64 cities around the world in four continents, 22 countries, and 20 U.S. states, including 9 cities in Wisconsin, but have yet to share research in Africa and Australia. Whether it is a regional conference in the desert southwest of the United States or an international conference in Rome, the opportunities for students to exchange research on a global scale can increase the worldwide visibility of SOIS and provide valuable occasions to develop connections with other scholars.

Centrality is a measurement of the connectedness or importance that a node plays in a network. There are numerous centrality measures in network analysis. The most basic is degree centrality, which in this network is a measure of the number of co-author relationships that an individual has. In this respect, Soohyung Joo has collaborated with more people than anyone else in this network. Another popular measure of centrality is the Eigenvector Centrality measure. This measure goes further in determining the importance of a node, in that the Eigenvector Centrality not only considers how connected a node is, but also considers how connected the node’s connections are as well. For example, a node that is connected to many other nodes that have no other connections will result in a lower Eigenvector Centrality value. A node with many connections which also have many connections leads to a higher Eigenvector Centrality value. Professor Dietmar Wolfram plays the most important role in the SOIS doctoral student co-authorship network as determined by Eigenvector Centrality.

Yuehua Zhao Smile

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Clustering provides another opportunity to investigate the co-authorship network. Each cluster determined by the Gephi software is indicated in the network graph by encircling it within a boundary. The Force Atlas algorithm used for the network layout in this graph generally laid itself out in accordance with the SOIS major areas of study. As a reminder, the Force Atlas algorithm uses simulated forces of attraction and repulsion based on the strength of co-author relationships to lay out networks. Clustering the network reveals few surprises, with the clusters predominately falling in line with majors. One author however,

The students’ hard work and dedication is evident by the output. They perform a wealth of research while at SOIS and this year is no different. We conclude our look at the research output of SOIS doctoral students by presenting their most recent batch of research. If you see a SOIS doctoral student in the hallway or buried under a stack of articles, let them know, “keep up the good work.”

Enjoy. xoxo

Spring 2014| 09

PhD SOIS Doctoral Student’s Research Achievements...(continued) Information Studies

k Hyoungjoo Par Organization (suggested by Laura Ridenour)

Carol Sabbar Distraction

Library and Information Science is regarded as a diverse and interdisciplinary field. This diversity is reflected in the research patterns of those in this network, with some preferring to work alone, while others prefer to work in groups.

The network also reveals several isolated authors or author groups that are detached from the main network. Four out of the 90 total authors in the network are authoring islands, preferring to write in solo. There are also an additional four co-authorship duos or trios that have no attachment to the main network.

In total 14.4% of the total number of authors in the network are not connected to the giant component. (Giant component is an actual scientific term used in network analysis.)

In addition to research islands, there are also authors who have stepped out of the confines of their major. While several people in the network have worked with individuals from one of the other SOIS majors, four students have worked with people in both of the other SOIS majors. Renee Bennett-Kapusniak, Jennifer Thiele, Adriana McCleer, and Jeanette Glover have engaged in research with colleagues from across the spectrum at SOIS. With some preferring to work alone and some enjoying crossing majors, it can be seen that there is plenty of diversity in approaches to student research at SOIS.

A special shout-out “th ank you” to Melodie Fox and Jihee Beak for giving me inspiration and just knowing they were behind me.

Bennett-Kapusniak, changes teams under the lens of cluster analysis.

She is an Information Retrieval (IR) major, but the clustering algorithm associates Bennett-Kapusniak with the Information Policy (IP) major.

It appears there is an IP researcher hidden in IR clothing; hmmm, very interesting. Clustering also indicates a split within the Information Policy major into two IP sub-clusters. A cursory survey of research titles suggests that one of the two IP sub-groups is more focused on privacy and new media, while the other IP sub-group leans more toward library-related topics.

In terms of majors, there were ten authors working in Information Policy, eleven authors working in Information Organization, and sixteen authors working in Information Retrieval in this network.

These include both doctoral students and SOIS professors known to be predominately associated with one of the three major areas, but does not include post-doctoral fellows, UMW professors generally not affiliated with one of the three major areas, and other authors not affiliated with UWM. Although in this sample, authors working in Information Retrieval have a 25% greater research output than those working in Information Organization, an ANOVA test indicated there is no statistically significant difference in the research output between authors in Information Policy, Information Organization, and Information Retrieval.

SOIS students’ research has taken them all over the globe. Through scholarly travel, students can be opened to cultures and customs to which they might not otherwise be exposed, thereby fostering not only their academic growth but also their individual personal human growth as well. In the course of sharing their research, SOIS doctoral students have visited 64 cities around the world in four continents, 22 countries, and 20 U.S. states, including 9 cities in Wisconsin, but have yet to share research in Africa and Australia. Whether it is a regional conference in the desert southwest of the United States or an international conference in Rome, the opportunities for students to exchange research on a global scale can increase the worldwide visibility of SOIS and provide valuable occasions to develop connections with other scholars.

Centrality is a measurement of the connectedness or importance that a node plays in a network. There are numerous centrality measures in network analysis. The most basic is degree centrality, which in this network is a measure of the number of co-author relationships that an individual has. In this respect, Soohyung Joo has collaborated with more people than anyone else in this network. Another popular measure of centrality is the Eigenvector Centrality measure. This measure goes further in determining the importance of a node, in that the Eigenvector Centrality not only considers how connected a node is, but also considers how connected the node’s connections are as well. For example, a node that is connected to many other nodes that have no other connections will result in a lower Eigenvector Centrality value. A node with many connections which also have many connections leads to a higher Eigenvector Centrality value. Professor Dietmar Wolfram plays the most important role in the SOIS doctoral student co-authorship network as determined by Eigenvector Centrality.

Yuehua Zhao Smile

08 | PhD Newsletter

Clustering provides another opportunity to investigate the co-authorship network. Each cluster determined by the Gephi software is indicated in the network graph by encircling it within a boundary. The Force Atlas algorithm used for the network layout in this graph generally laid itself out in accordance with the SOIS major areas of study. As a reminder, the Force Atlas algorithm uses simulated forces of attraction and repulsion based on the strength of co-author relationships to lay out networks. Clustering the network reveals few surprises, with the clusters predominately falling in line with majors. One author however,

The students’ hard work and dedication is evident by the output. They perform a wealth of research while at SOIS and this year is no different. We conclude our look at the research output of SOIS doctoral students by presenting their most recent batch of research. If you see a SOIS doctoral student in the hallway or buried under a stack of articles, let them know, “keep up the good work.”

Enjoy. xoxo

Spring 2014| 09

PhD Recent Scholarship

Recent Scholarship PhD

Information Studies

Chapter & Monograph Publications Fox, M.J. & Olson, H.A. (2013). Essentialism and care in a female-intensive profession. In Rebecca Dean and Patrick Keilty (eds.), Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader, Los Angeles: Library Juice Press.

Refereed.

Zimmer, M. & Proferes, N. (2013). Privacy on Twitter / Twitter on Privacy. In K. Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt & C. Puschmann (eds.), Twitter and Society. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Scott Smith, T. (2013). Snow White in Africa: Afrocentric Ideology in Marilyn Shearer’s Tale. In Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Ruth McKoy Lowery, Laretta Henderson (eds.), Fairy Tales with a Black Consciousness: Essays on Adaptations of Familiar Stories.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Journal Articles Barniskis, S. C. (2013). Makerspaces and Teaching Artists. Teaching Artist Journal, 12(1), 6-14. doi: 10.1080/15411796.2014.844621 Bennett-Kapusniak, R. (2013). Older Adults and the Public Library: The Impact of the Boomer Generation. Public Library Quarterly, 32 (3) 204-222.

Davies, K. & Thiele, J. (In Press). Library Research: A Domain Comparison of Two Library Journals. Community and Junior College Libraries.

McCleer, A. (2013). Knowing communities: A review of community assessment literature. Public Library Quarterly, 32(3), 263-274.

Scott Smith, T. (2013). Cinderella’s Lessons on Footbinding: How Tiny Feet Found their Way into the Chinese Cinderella Story Transnational Literature, 5(2), 69-77.

Conference Proceedings Xie, I., Joo, S., & Bennett-Kapusniak, R. (2013). User Engagement and System Support in the Search Process: User dominated, system dominated and balanced tactics. In ASIS&T 2013 Annual Meeting Proceedings.

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Information Studies

You, S., DesArmo, J., & Joo, S. (2013).

Measuring Happiness of US Cities by Mining User-generated Text in Flickr. com: A Pilot Analysis. In ASIS&T 2013 Annual Meeting Proceedings.

Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., Joo, S., & DesArmo, J. (Accepted). A Prediction Model for Academic Libraries’ Productivity Based on Multivariate Analysis: A Pilot Study. Poster at QQML. May, 2014. Istanbul, Turkey.

Conference Posters

Conference Presentations

Beak, J. (2014). A child-driven metadata schema: children’s cognitive processes in book selection and metadata elements.

Jean Tague-Sutcliffe doctoral posters at ALISE. January 21-24, 2014. Philadelphia, PA. (Honorable Mention Award)

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., Crawford Barniskis, S., McCleer, A., Thiele, J., & Latham, J. (Accepted). Leveraging National Data to Advocate Locally. Presentation at American Library Association Annual Conference 2014. June 29, 2014. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Beak, J. (2014). Emotional metadata: Pilot study of children’s book selection behaviors. Poster at 2014 ALISE Annual Conference. January 21-24, 2014. Philadelphia, PA.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., Crawford-Barniskis, S., McCleer, A., Thiele, J., & Latham, J. (2013). The Traditional, the Digital, and You: Discussing the Pew Reports and What They Mean in Wisconsin. Presented at Wisconsin Library Association Conference 2013. October 24, 2013. Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., Crawford Barniskis, S., McCleer, A., Thiele, T., & Latham, J. (2014). Converging Knowledge: Networking the Gap between Public Librarians and Researchers. Poster at ALISE 2014.

January 21. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Buchel, O., Neal, D., Kipp, M., Beak, J., & Choi, I. (2013). Analyzing spatial, social, and semantic dimensions of user interactions with collections on Flickr. Poster presented at the 2013 Social Media & Society Conference, September 14-15. Nova Scotia, Canada.

DesArmo, J., You, S., Mu, X., & Dimitroff, A. (Accepted). Situational Virtual Reference: Get Help When You Need It. Poster at iConference. March, 2014. Berlin, Germany.

Park, H. (Accepted) Integrated Geographic Data Visualization with Open Government Data: Seoul Metropolitan Government of Korea. International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). February, 2014. San Francisco, CA. Ridenour, L., & Park, H. (Accepted). Visualizing Analysis of Historical Patterns with Word Collocation: ISKO Proceedings Titles from 1992 to 2012. International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Conference. May, 2014. Kraków, Poland.

Thiele, J. (2014) Converging Knowledge: Networking the Gap between Public Librarians and Researcher, Poster at ALISE. January, 2014. Philadelphia, PA.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., Jeong, W., & Han, H. (2013). Digital Inclusion Survey: ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium IGNITE Talk. Presented at ASIS&T Annual Meeting. November, 2013. Montreal, Canada.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., & McCleer A. (Accepted). Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books. Presentation at Fifth International Conference on Popular Romance Studies.

June 2014. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., & Moyer, J. (Accepted). Romantic Love in the E-book Library: Where are the Romance Best Sellers?. Presentation at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Nation Conference. April 2014. Chicago, Illinois.

Choi, I. & Lee, H. (2013). Toward social-contextualization of big data. Presented at Special Interest Group/Classification Research Workshop 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. November, 2013. Montreal Canada.

Crawford Barniskis, S. (2013). Let’s Create with Makerspace. Presented at the Wisconsin Library Association annual conference. October, 2013. Green Bay, WI. Fox, M.J. (2014). Enabling entrepreneurship through epistemology, ethics, and essential questions. ALISE 2014: Educational Entrepreneurship, Gender Issues

SIG: Educational Entrepreneurship in LIS to Further a Discussion of Gender-Based Issues. January, 2014, Philadelphia, PA. Refereed. [Editor’s note: This work was accepted to ALISE 2014, however the author was unable to present the work due to circumstances beyond the control of the author.]

Scott Smith, T. (2013). To e Or Not To e?

A Comparative Analysis of Electronic and Print Texts for Children. Presented at the Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association Conference. April 2013.

Madison, Wisconsin.

Scott Smith, T. (2013). Video Games as Interactive Learning Tools for Critical Intervention in the Disciplines for Digital Humanities. Presented at the Directions in the Digital Humanities. November, 2013.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Thiele, J. (2013). The Digital Divide: A Case Study of the Impact of Low (or No) Broadband in Rural areas Presented at the Second International Symposium on Information Management In the Changing World. September, 2013. Limerick, Ireland.

Thiele, J. (2013). Equity of Access in Rural Libraries: A Case Study of Low Broadband Speed and Its Impact on Practice (LITA Forum, ALA). November, 2013. Louisville, Kentucky.

Xie, I., Joo, S., & Bennett-Kapusniak, R. (2013). User Engagement and System Support in the Search Process: User dominated, system dominated and balanced tactics. Poster at 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. November, 2013. Montreal, Canada.

Scott Smith, T. (2013). Virtual Reference Services: Losing Face or Connecting with Patrons? Presented at the Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries. April, 2013. Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

Thiele, J. Graduate School Student Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Beak, J. ALISE Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition-Honorable Mention Award, January, 2014; UWM Graduate School Student Travel Award $700 (for travel to DCMI conference in Lisbon, Portugal), Fall 2013.

Crawford Barniskis, S. Graduate School Student Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2014; iConference doctoral colloquium IMLS award, Berlin, 2014.

Scott Smith, T. Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; School of Information Studies Doctoral Research Award Grant Opportunity.

Professional Service McCleer, A. Executive Committee Member, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization; Member, Reference Services Section, Reference and User Services Association, Library Services to the Spanish Speaking Committee; Member, REFORMA Legislative Committee; Member, American Library Association Diversity Research Grant Advisory Committee.

American Library Association, Reference and User Services Section, Library Services to the Aging Population Committee.

Crawford Barniskis, S. President, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization; PhD Representative, SOIS Doctoral Program Committee; PhD Student Representative, Academic Planning Committee; Treasurer, ASIST Student Chapter, School of Information Studies, University of WI-Milwaukee, Board of Trustees, Wisconsin Center for the Book.

Scott Smith, T. Communications Coordinator, ASIST Student Chapter; Member, American Library Association; Member, Wisconsin Library Association; Member, Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries; Social Media and Public Relations, Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries 2014 Conference Planning Committee; User Services Representative, Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries Conference Planning Committee; Reviewer, The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds; Planner and Coordinator, American Library Association International Game Day Planning Committee for UWM; Member, ALA Games and Gaming Round Table (GameRT); Conference Planner and Facilitator, University of Central Florida 2014 Information Fluency Conference.

Benoit III, E. Student Day Planning Committee, 2014 Archival Education and Research Institute; Executive Committee Member, Social Studies of Information Research Group; Website Manager, Social Studies of Information; Special Website Management Volunteer, Special Interest Group in Computers, Information, and Society.

Park, H. Executive Committee, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization.

Awards

Beak, J. President, Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Student Chapter, SOIS, UWM: 2012-Present; Executive Officer, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization: 2011-2013.

McCleer, A. Association for Library and Information Science Education, Doctoral Students to ALISE Grant.

Hyoungjoo Park. Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award; SOIS PhD Scholarship.

Proferes, N. President, School of Information Studies Doctoral Student Organization; PhD Student Representative, School of Information Studies Doctoral Program Committee.

Choi, I. Graduate School Student Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R. Vice President, ASIS&T Student Chapter, SOIS, UWM;

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PhD Recent Scholarship

Recent Scholarship PhD

Information Studies

Chapter & Monograph Publications Fox, M.J. & Olson, H.A. (2013). Essentialism and care in a female-intensive profession. In Rebecca Dean and Patrick Keilty (eds.), Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader, Los Angeles: Library Juice Press.

Refereed.

Zimmer, M. & Proferes, N. (2013). Privacy on Twitter / Twitter on Privacy. In K. Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt & C. Puschmann (eds.), Twitter and Society. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Scott Smith, T. (2013). Snow White in Africa: Afrocentric Ideology in Marilyn Shearer’s Tale. In Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Ruth McKoy Lowery, Laretta Henderson (eds.), Fairy Tales with a Black Consciousness: Essays on Adaptations of Familiar Stories.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Journal Articles Barniskis, S. C. (2013). Makerspaces and Teaching Artists. Teaching Artist Journal, 12(1), 6-14. doi: 10.1080/15411796.2014.844621 Bennett-Kapusniak, R. (2013). Older Adults and the Public Library: The Impact of the Boomer Generation. Public Library Quarterly, 32 (3) 204-222.

Davies, K. & Thiele, J. (In Press). Library Research: A Domain Comparison of Two Library Journals. Community and Junior College Libraries.

McCleer, A. (2013). Knowing communities: A review of community assessment literature. Public Library Quarterly, 32(3), 263-274.

Scott Smith, T. (2013). Cinderella’s Lessons on Footbinding: How Tiny Feet Found their Way into the Chinese Cinderella Story Transnational Literature, 5(2), 69-77.

Conference Proceedings Xie, I., Joo, S., & Bennett-Kapusniak, R. (2013). User Engagement and System Support in the Search Process: User dominated, system dominated and balanced tactics. In ASIS&T 2013 Annual Meeting Proceedings.

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Information Studies

You, S., DesArmo, J., & Joo, S. (2013).

Measuring Happiness of US Cities by Mining User-generated Text in Flickr. com: A Pilot Analysis. In ASIS&T 2013 Annual Meeting Proceedings.

Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., Joo, S., & DesArmo, J. (Accepted). A Prediction Model for Academic Libraries’ Productivity Based on Multivariate Analysis: A Pilot Study. Poster at QQML. May, 2014. Istanbul, Turkey.

Conference Posters

Conference Presentations

Beak, J. (2014). A child-driven metadata schema: children’s cognitive processes in book selection and metadata elements.

Jean Tague-Sutcliffe doctoral posters at ALISE. January 21-24, 2014. Philadelphia, PA. (Honorable Mention Award)

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., Crawford Barniskis, S., McCleer, A., Thiele, J., & Latham, J. (Accepted). Leveraging National Data to Advocate Locally. Presentation at American Library Association Annual Conference 2014. June 29, 2014. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Beak, J. (2014). Emotional metadata: Pilot study of children’s book selection behaviors. Poster at 2014 ALISE Annual Conference. January 21-24, 2014. Philadelphia, PA.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., Crawford-Barniskis, S., McCleer, A., Thiele, J., & Latham, J. (2013). The Traditional, the Digital, and You: Discussing the Pew Reports and What They Mean in Wisconsin. Presented at Wisconsin Library Association Conference 2013. October 24, 2013. Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., Crawford Barniskis, S., McCleer, A., Thiele, T., & Latham, J. (2014). Converging Knowledge: Networking the Gap between Public Librarians and Researchers. Poster at ALISE 2014.

January 21. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Buchel, O., Neal, D., Kipp, M., Beak, J., & Choi, I. (2013). Analyzing spatial, social, and semantic dimensions of user interactions with collections on Flickr. Poster presented at the 2013 Social Media & Society Conference, September 14-15. Nova Scotia, Canada.

DesArmo, J., You, S., Mu, X., & Dimitroff, A. (Accepted). Situational Virtual Reference: Get Help When You Need It. Poster at iConference. March, 2014. Berlin, Germany.

Park, H. (Accepted) Integrated Geographic Data Visualization with Open Government Data: Seoul Metropolitan Government of Korea. International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). February, 2014. San Francisco, CA. Ridenour, L., & Park, H. (Accepted). Visualizing Analysis of Historical Patterns with Word Collocation: ISKO Proceedings Titles from 1992 to 2012. International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Conference. May, 2014. Kraków, Poland.

Thiele, J. (2014) Converging Knowledge: Networking the Gap between Public Librarians and Researcher, Poster at ALISE. January, 2014. Philadelphia, PA.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., Jeong, W., & Han, H. (2013). Digital Inclusion Survey: ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium IGNITE Talk. Presented at ASIS&T Annual Meeting. November, 2013. Montreal, Canada.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., & McCleer A. (Accepted). Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books. Presentation at Fifth International Conference on Popular Romance Studies.

June 2014. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R., & Moyer, J. (Accepted). Romantic Love in the E-book Library: Where are the Romance Best Sellers?. Presentation at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Nation Conference. April 2014. Chicago, Illinois.

Choi, I. & Lee, H. (2013). Toward social-contextualization of big data. Presented at Special Interest Group/Classification Research Workshop 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. November, 2013. Montreal Canada.

Crawford Barniskis, S. (2013). Let’s Create with Makerspace. Presented at the Wisconsin Library Association annual conference. October, 2013. Green Bay, WI. Fox, M.J. (2014). Enabling entrepreneurship through epistemology, ethics, and essential questions. ALISE 2014: Educational Entrepreneurship, Gender Issues

SIG: Educational Entrepreneurship in LIS to Further a Discussion of Gender-Based Issues. January, 2014, Philadelphia, PA. Refereed. [Editor’s note: This work was accepted to ALISE 2014, however the author was unable to present the work due to circumstances beyond the control of the author.]

Scott Smith, T. (2013). To e Or Not To e?

A Comparative Analysis of Electronic and Print Texts for Children. Presented at the Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association Conference. April 2013.

Madison, Wisconsin.

Scott Smith, T. (2013). Video Games as Interactive Learning Tools for Critical Intervention in the Disciplines for Digital Humanities. Presented at the Directions in the Digital Humanities. November, 2013.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Thiele, J. (2013). The Digital Divide: A Case Study of the Impact of Low (or No) Broadband in Rural areas Presented at the Second International Symposium on Information Management In the Changing World. September, 2013. Limerick, Ireland.

Thiele, J. (2013). Equity of Access in Rural Libraries: A Case Study of Low Broadband Speed and Its Impact on Practice (LITA Forum, ALA). November, 2013. Louisville, Kentucky.

Xie, I., Joo, S., & Bennett-Kapusniak, R. (2013). User Engagement and System Support in the Search Process: User dominated, system dominated and balanced tactics. Poster at 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. November, 2013. Montreal, Canada.

Scott Smith, T. (2013). Virtual Reference Services: Losing Face or Connecting with Patrons? Presented at the Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries. April, 2013. Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

Thiele, J. Graduate School Student Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Beak, J. ALISE Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition-Honorable Mention Award, January, 2014; UWM Graduate School Student Travel Award $700 (for travel to DCMI conference in Lisbon, Portugal), Fall 2013.

Crawford Barniskis, S. Graduate School Student Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2014; iConference doctoral colloquium IMLS award, Berlin, 2014.

Scott Smith, T. Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; School of Information Studies Doctoral Research Award Grant Opportunity.

Professional Service McCleer, A. Executive Committee Member, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization; Member, Reference Services Section, Reference and User Services Association, Library Services to the Spanish Speaking Committee; Member, REFORMA Legislative Committee; Member, American Library Association Diversity Research Grant Advisory Committee.

American Library Association, Reference and User Services Section, Library Services to the Aging Population Committee.

Crawford Barniskis, S. President, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization; PhD Representative, SOIS Doctoral Program Committee; PhD Student Representative, Academic Planning Committee; Treasurer, ASIST Student Chapter, School of Information Studies, University of WI-Milwaukee, Board of Trustees, Wisconsin Center for the Book.

Scott Smith, T. Communications Coordinator, ASIST Student Chapter; Member, American Library Association; Member, Wisconsin Library Association; Member, Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries; Social Media and Public Relations, Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries 2014 Conference Planning Committee; User Services Representative, Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries Conference Planning Committee; Reviewer, The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds; Planner and Coordinator, American Library Association International Game Day Planning Committee for UWM; Member, ALA Games and Gaming Round Table (GameRT); Conference Planner and Facilitator, University of Central Florida 2014 Information Fluency Conference.

Benoit III, E. Student Day Planning Committee, 2014 Archival Education and Research Institute; Executive Committee Member, Social Studies of Information Research Group; Website Manager, Social Studies of Information; Special Website Management Volunteer, Special Interest Group in Computers, Information, and Society.

Park, H. Executive Committee, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization.

Awards

Beak, J. President, Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Student Chapter, SOIS, UWM: 2012-Present; Executive Officer, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization: 2011-2013.

McCleer, A. Association for Library and Information Science Education, Doctoral Students to ALISE Grant.

Hyoungjoo Park. Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award; SOIS PhD Scholarship.

Proferes, N. President, School of Information Studies Doctoral Student Organization; PhD Student Representative, School of Information Studies Doctoral Program Committee.

Choi, I. Graduate School Student Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Bennett-Kapusniak, R. Vice President, ASIS&T Student Chapter, SOIS, UWM;

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Save the Date!

PhD Workshops

NWQ B 3511 • Lunch will be provided.

“Prepare a Job Application Package”

Presented by Dr. Tom Walker and Dr. Michael Zimmer February 25, 2014 | 12:30 - 2:00pm

The SOIS PhD Newsletter is published twice a year by the SOIS PhD student body. Contributions (articles, letters, photos, etc.) are welcomed. Please send updates to the PhD Program Director, Dr. Iris Xie (hiris@uwm.edu).

EDITORIAL BOARD Tyler Scott Smith, PhD Student, Chief Editor Joel DesArmo, PhD Student, Editor Shannon Barniskis, PhD Student, Editor Laura Ridenour, PhD Student, Editor Dr. Iris Xie, PhD Program Director, Editor

“TA Experience and Course Design”

Art Direction & Design: Claire Ehlers

“Apply for Non-Faculty Positions”

Doctoral Program Committee 2013 - 2014

Presented by Dr. Donald Force and Dr. Nadine Kozak March 11, 2014 | 12:30 - 2:00pm Presented by Dr. Barbara Jones, ALA Dr. Soo Young Rieh, Excite/Univ. of Michigan Dr. Sandra Toro, IMLS April 17, 2014 | 12:00 - 1:30pm

2025 E Newport Ave NWQB 3rd Floor Milwaukee, WI 53211

Linda Barajas Dr. Terrance Newell (Chair, Fall 2013) Dr. Wilhelm Peekhaus (Chair, Spring 2014) Dr. Iris Xie (Director) Shannon Barniskis (Student)

INFORMATION our focus INTERNATIONAL scope UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE, SCHOOL OF INFORMATION our STUDIES INTERDISCIPLINARY our mindset

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PhD Information Studies

PhD Newsletter Vol. 03 | No. 02

In this issue:

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Note from Program Director, Dr. Iris Xie

Building a Public Library Collaboratory, Student Milestones Building a Public Library Collaboratory, Selfies, Keywords, and Shout-outs

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Selfies, Keywords, and Shout-outs, Why are We PhD Students, Recent Graduate

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Selfies, Keywords, and Shout-outs, SOIS Doctoral Student’s Research Achievements

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Recent Scholarship: Chapter & Monograph Pubs, Articles, Conference Proceedings, Posters, Presentations

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Recent Scholarship: Conference Presentations, Awards, Professional Service

Save The Date: Upcoming Events

March 2014

A Note from our Director...

Welcome back to Spring 2014! I would like to take this opportunity to thank Prof. Jin Zhang for his dedication and commitment to our PhD program during Fall 2013 when I was on sabbatical. I also would like to thank the previous DSO president, Nicholas Proferes, along with the executive committee members, Jihee Beak, Renee Kapusniak, and Adriana McCleer, for their contribution to the PhD program, and congratulate the new DSO President Shannon Barniskis and new DSO executive committee members Hyoungjoo Park, Adriana McCleer, and Ann Graf.

Here are some of the updates for the SOIS PhD program: Please join me to congratulate Dr. Soohyung Joo, Jihee Beak and Adriana McCleer!

Soohyung accepted a job offer as a tenure tracked Assistant Professor at School of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky. Jihee’s poster received Honorable Mention Award at ALISE/Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition. Adriana received Doctoral Students to ALISE Grant Award.

The new PhD curriculum will start Fall 2014. Among the new courses, Current Issues in Information Studies and Qualitative Research Methods in Information Studies will be offered in Fall 2014; Theoretical Foundations in Information Studies and Quantitative Research Methods in Information Studies will be offered in Spring 2015.

The SOIS PhD program will be reviewed in Fall 2014. We’ll collect related data of PhD program for the past 6 years including soliciting feedback from our graduates and existing students. I would like to thank Edward Benoit in assisting the data collection of the review report. This is the opportunity for us to review the strength of the program and think about how to enhance the program further.

The DPC is in the process of admitting new students for 2014-2015. Marketing and promotion is essential for the success of the SOIS PhD program. Recruiting materials including the SOIS PhD brochure and the flyer for PhD Research Assistantships are available in Front Office. Please help distribute them to prospective students.

In order to provide more incentive and motivation for doctoral students, I will work with the DPC to develop a comprehensive assessment mechanism for merit-based award distribution (e.g. Chancellor’s award).

School of Information Studies 2025 E Newport | NWQB 3rd Floor Milwaukee, WI 53211

Please send your comments and suggestions regarding our program to me (hiris@uwm.edu).

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